The IRS has announced the official estate and gift exclusion amounts for 2024.
For an estate of any decedent dying during calendar year 2024, the Federal applicable exemption will increase from $12.92 million to $13.61...more
In a recently-issued Revenue Ruling (Rev Rul 2023-02), the IRS has held that the basis of the assets in an irrevocable grantor trust, where the assets are not included in the grantor’s gross estate for federal estate tax...more
The IRS recently issued Revenue Procedure 2022-19, which permits S corporations to remedy certain inadvertent terminations of S corporation status and invalid elections without having to request a costly Private Letter...more
The IRS released Revenue Procedure 2021-45 which announces the increase in 2022 of the estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax applicable exclusion amounts from $11.7 million to $12.06 million. The applicable...more
On June 10, 2020, in Nelson v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo 2020-81, the Tax Court ruled in favor of the IRS and against a taxpayer who attempted to use a defined value provision to value a transfer of assets.
The taxpayer’s...more
On April 9, 2020, the IRS updated its guidance originally provided in Notice 2020-18, Additional Relief for Taxpayers Affected by Ongoing Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic, to provide extension relief to taxpayers in response...more